Transfer

Quick meaning: Transfer is a verb meaning (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

Meaning

(transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
2. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
3. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
4. (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
5. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
6. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
7. (transport, of a traveler) To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.

Example Sentences

transfer to the Blue Line

The title to land is transferred by deed.

to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone

to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion

Word Forms

• transfers
• transferring
• transferred
• transferrest
• transferredst
• transferreth

Synonyms for transfer

Depending on context, synonyms include move, onpass, copy, transpose, abalienate, alien.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transference, transport, transpose, change, transferral, reassign.

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